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Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa 2.68.12

Ayodhyā Kāṇḍa, sarga 68: Surabhi’s tears and Bharata’s vow. He compares Kausalyā’s sorrow to Surabhi’s grief for her exhausted oxen and offers to replace Rāma in exile

In the sequence: he says her actions have disgraced him too: the world will associate him with the gain she sought

2.68.12

kausalyāṃ dharmasaṃyuktāṃ viyuktāṃ pāpaniścaye
kṛtvā kaṃ prāpsyase tv adya lokaṃ nirayagāminī

Having sundered the virtuous Kausalyā from her son, O you set on evil, what world will you now win, bound as you are for hell?

Words: kausalyāṃ — Kausalyā; dharmasaṃyuktāṃ — endowed with dharma; viyuktāṃ — separated, bereft; pāpaniścaye — O you of wicked resolve; kṛtvā — having made; kaṃ — what; prāpsyase — will you attain; tv — indeed; adya — now, today; lokaṃ — world; nirayagāminī — bound for hell

Composed by Maharṣi Vālmīki, the ādikavi of the ādikāvya: the first poet of the first poem. Sanskrit: The Vālmīki-Rāmāyaṇa: Critical Edition, Oriental Institute, Baroda, 1960–1975 (gen. eds. G. H. Bhatt, U. P. Shah); IAST from GRETIL (Göttingen). Translation and word glosses: Claude Opus 4.6–4.7; summaries and sequences: ChatGPT Astra (machine-made). Numbering follows the Critical Edition, not the vulgate (e.g. Gita Press, valmikiramayan.net), so sarga and verse numbers can differ from those editions.